Future Care Capital Region

Future Care Capital Region is located in Hyattsville, Maryland. The city has 150,988 people. With an overall grade of B+, this facility should work for most people. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this place. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its short-term care grade, which we will address in the next section.

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is typically a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 62.5 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

Adding to its impressive grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we look at the amount of time nurses commit to residents and the levels of training of those nurses. This place provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by both of these figures. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents suffering falls resulting in major injury, this facility performed as well as any nursing home Maryland.

The final area we graded proved to be this facility's weakest category. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it a respectable grade of C for long-term care. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 3.88 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most facilities since it had more complicated patients.